It makes for a very moving opening, as powerful as anything I've read in Brookner.
Her self-knowledge, her look back on her stilted upbringing, her account of mistakes made in early life because of this faulty early development, is heartbreaking to read about. Emma cannot emulate this woman as a model in future life, she knows that, yet she has no other option. Her mother is a recluse who stays at home with her books. Emma Roberts' father died when she was three. Set late in the 20th century in London with some sequences in Paris.
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